The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! from the gallevs in Italy after having served
| out a term OF nfty-seven years His crilo " 10
1 homicide.
! CAPT WILLIAMS. of the New York police force,
sailed his yacht for the first time last Thursday
| Sfonninr ut Cos Cob the hawser was cast ashore
/ and held for two hours by dog The talthtiu
/ animal was an iron dog, anchored securely III
/ the pier
! AYouxG German showed would-be suicides
! neat. cheap way in Central Park the other DAY.
| He fastened his foot in the crotch of limb and
| hung head downward until death came. II
/ didn'. oven cost him the trouble or steall'lg AZ
| old ciotheSline.
! a DUBUQUE GROCER named Scott offered TO leu
! a woman named Taylor strike him with cod
/ fish for 25c 1t was all a joke, you know, buI
she paid the money gave the codiisn VIM i1ii
/ or two and when it hit grocer Scott 1t broke MS
! jaw and tore off part of his ear.
THE people of this country spend annually
over S2OOOoOO for singing birds. All the war
! bling in Italian and German from behind the
| foot!ights does not equal in cost therefore: me
! twfttering of the feathered pets i'll their glided
! cages Nearly 100000 birds are imported INTO
this country every year.
THE rarity Of lump of ice in tenement
! house suggests to a writer in a New York news
| paper that the flower mission should be followed
up at this stage of the season by an ice MISSION
! THE sweetest music ever heard, once eN-
| claimed q cOQNaleSCenU FEVER pdIlellI, Ndo VIZ
| Jingle of the broken ice in the pitcher OF water
that the nurse was bringing to my bedside.
The pretty little village of Cambridge, n. Y,
has a fire company Of great theological ability
Its foreman is the Rev. Mr. Bcattie, its assistant
| foreman is the Rev Mr.. Zweifel, and its chap
| lain is the Rev. Mr. Horsfeld, and they run
| wild de machine when the occasion arises just
| as though they were one of the boys. AS pro-
| hibitory tariff of $40 is levied on all "cuSS
| words" exceedingly few of them are used.
| TIE strawberry correspondent Of the Bos-
| ton Transcript thinks, takes its name, not as is
| enormously supposed, from the original custom
| of sending the berries to market strung on
| strawS, but from the old English "streow-oer1e,
| or straying- berry, from ''streowon,' TO stray,
| referring to the straying habits OF the runners
| of the plant. Latimer, in one OF his sermons,
| characteriZes those clergymen who were dis
posed to spend their time away from their tiocks
in pursuit of pleasure as strawberry parsons, "
| or strdylng parsons.
THERE are about 5000 shooting and deer for
ests in Scotland. The number of persons per-
| petually employed in connection with these may
| be moderately estimated at GO0O allowing an av-
| erage of two to each. During the season the
| number is considerably increased, and may be
stated at 1900, or six individuals to each sport
| ing ground. Here are some of the rents receiv-
| ed by owners in different shres from SpOrtsmen:
Aberdeen, e77 al: Argyll 81, 957; Forfar, e5s,-
| $685. Inverness, 9145, 302; Kirkcudbright, e190l5;
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| 92S,627.
A NEW SPECIES of night blooming plant is the
Chinese evening primrose. Like the moon
| flower, it never blooms until after sunset, but,
| unlike the moon flower, you can see the Chinese
| plant in its evolution from a long, slender bud
| to full blown primrose, and all within a few
| minutes. 1t bursts the bands of green with a
| little snap. Then leaf after leaf of the canary
| colOred flower unfodS itself slowly to the light.
| Unlike the moon flower, the Chinese evening
| primrose is hardy. 1t is a free bloomer. The
| moon flower is a climber. while the primrose is
| bush, but rank grower and immensely at
| tractive plant in garden, Some of the flowers
| will measure four inches across.
| DESPITE the talk about diamond fields in Ken
lucky, but few gems of any sort have been found
in the limits of the United States. The most
! celebrated diamond beds are in India, Brazil
and South Africa, although single stones have
| occasionally been picked up in Virginia and
| North Carolina. Mexico furnishes many gems
| particularly opals. but North America, while
| rich in gold and silver, appears to be poor in
| precious stones. North Carolina has furnished
| some interesting stones, particularly the hid
| dente, grass green gem allied in chemica
| character to the topaz, but of color previously
unknown. 1t occurs in Alexander county, il
the foothills east of the Blue Ridge, and was
named for its dscoverer, Hidden.
STATISTICS show that SO, 900 wells have beer
drilled in Pennsylvania and New York since the
discovery of petroleum, at cost of $200, 600 900
These wells have produced 10000, 900 barrels Of
oil which were sold at the wells for $500 900 900
| This represented a profit to the producer oil
S3OOOOOO00. The amount of oil exported is
placed at Z, 231, 102 923 gallons In the pool in
Washington county alone $4,000 has been ex
| pended in machinery and drilling. This does
not include the many millions that are repre-
sented there in the natural gas industry. hide
pendent of the oil business, there is abou
$5o,OOO,0O0 invested in natural gas plants If
| PpDnGVlVnnla These a mn iaCti Gc1,ra a,,c
serve to show the magnitude of the oil and gas
business,
The Chinese are to have new coinage, anC
ninety coming presses and all necessary ma
chinery for fitting up a mint in China will b.
ready by next April The presses, which arr
being prepared in England, are noiseless anC
automatic, and are capable of producing 300,
900 coins per day of ten hours The coins are t.
be 81 pieces ard three ub-divisions, a half
fifth and a tenth in silver, well as the cash
or mills" equal to onethousandth part of 81 il
rolled brass. The silver 81 is equal to five shil
lings English money. OF the So 700, 600 coin
which are to be struck per day. 100 900 are to b.
Gf required) silver 81. The extent of the orde
may be estimated from the fact that the roya
| presses. The value of the daily coinage of Eng
lish money is &25,0OO.
A CASE is reported, in the Sei-iktcdi a med
cal journal of Japan, of the resuscitation Of
woman apparently dead, by the hypodermic in
lection of nitro-glycerine Another case Is ais
reported in this country, where the physician
| after eXhauSting other means, was about L
abandon the case as hopeless, when it occurre
to him to try nitro glycerine. lie injected te
| drops of the solution of the substance into
vein. A minute elapsed before his patient CAV
a slight gasp; in another minute this was FOL
| lowed by three or four gasps; and after III
third and fourth minutes the pulse was felt an
the heart was distinctly heard. A flush cam
over the face of the patient the eyes opened
the muscles which had assumed the rightly o
death, gradually relaxed, and she became cor
scous. In few days the woman made goo
recovery 1t is suggested that the hypodermi
injection of nitro glyceriue should be tried il
other cases OF collapse, as from overdoses o
chlorotorm or shock from surgical operation.
THE secretary of a library in England, obsery
ing that there was great demand for Charlie
kingslcy's works, and an equal demand, fron
about the same persons, for John Ruskin'
works, wrote to the latter author asking hin
how it was that so many people were led to ad
mire such widely different writer's. That tw
such opposite authors should take hold of tn
same minds, replied Mr.. RuSkin, lis entire
| probable if the Opposites are both part of TN
world and its sky. Kingsley liked cast wind;
like west. Kingsley stepped westward-Yanke
way. | step eastward, thinking the old sta
stands where IL used to. There was much il
Kingsley that was delightful to raw thinkers
and men generally remain raw I'm this climate
He was always extremely civil TO me and l.
Carlyle, but failed in the most cowardly wa
when we had the Eyre battle to fight. He wa